Tag: Hollywood
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RIP Glenn Frey: Husband. Father. The Coke Fiend From Let’s Get Harry.
This month we lost Glenn Frey, a consummate entertainer, at the age of 67. Frey is probably best known for his role as Spence, a coke-addled regular Joe from Illinois who, with his buddies, mounts a daring rescue of their buddy who’s being held hostage in Colombia in the 1986 film Let’s Get Harry. This film is…
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(A Few Of) The Most Insufferable Things in Hollywood
To report every instance of idiocy, ineptitude and blowhardiness in Hollywood would take a team of several thousand bloggers working 20-hour days. This is not news. The group assigned to the Kardashians would break the Internet alone with its output. Nevertheless, as a world-class cynic, I would be remiss if I did not point out the most egregious offenders to…
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Remake These Movies (?)
You don’t have to be a cinephile to realize that Hollywood has run out of ideas — at least the original ones. Studios churn out the remakes with reckless abandon these days- sorry, actually, their versions are reimagined. That’s fancy talk for taking the barest plot outlines, characters and, most importantly, the title and updating them for…
Geoff Wondering 